Thus, when the castle gates closed, access to the peninsula was stopped. Corinthian colonies former name - Potidea who took part in the Battle of Plataea (479 BC), is mentioned on a pedestal of bronze gods worshiped by the winners.
Conquered by the Athenians in 431 BC and then destroyed in 357 BC King Philip II of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great, the city was rebuilt from the ground in 316 BC King Cassander, who was responsible for the construction channel which protects the entire peninsula. Destroyed by the Huns in 540 DC, the city was rebuilt and reinforced with a defensive wall, placed on both sides of the channel, by the Byzantine emperor Justinian. Wall reinforced during the Venetian occupation was restored four centuries later and used as barricades during the fighting in 1821, which preceded Greece's independence from Ottoman rule.
